Members Evening

Member's Evening, 20th January 1996

Camberwell Beauiy•· (Nymphalis antiopa)

It was a cold evening but despite this nearly thirty members turned up to make an interesting and successful evening. The evening opened with a brief introduction and the running order from fames Mann our chairman, we then got down to the serious business. Wilfrid George opened showing us some of his old slides from around the fifties. He enthralled us by how with wire, string, old lenses, cocoa tins, pliers, vices etc. he was able to produce good results with the limited equipment of the day. I am still amazed how he got butterflies to stay still with a piece of wire beside them. Richard Stewart talked about this years rare migrants and gave us some excellent shots ofCamberwell Beaury. (Chairmans note: I think I am the only person who did not see one this year). Michael and Jenny Kelsey gave us a double act of Portugese and British butterflies, unfortunately we were not able to help in identifying some of the Portugese butterflies for them. David and Christine Orme showed some good slides of butterflies, moths and • caterpillars. Tony Prichard and then Steven Goss gave us a good variety of British butterflies. The last three all showed variations of Common Blue and Brown Argus and explained how they differentiated between them (See article on page 8 -Ed.). After a break for a chat, the draw and refreshments fames Mann talked of his' wanderings in South Africa and illustrated some forty-three different species of butt~rflies and moths he had seen in a week. Unfortunately Roger Kendrick was not able to make it to show his rare moth migrants bur we will get him next time. It was a very enjoyable evening, we plan to have another in the autumn including a competition of photos taken this year, so get snapping!. More details in the next Suffolk Argus. Finally thanks to Janice Pritchard, Paul and Sue Gilson for on the spot organisation.